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Effect of plasma composition on accretion on to black holes

Indranil Chattopadhyay
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Matter makes a transition from non-relativistic to relativistic regime, as it falls onto a black hole. We employ a relativistic equation of state, abbreviated as RC, to study multi-species fluid flow around black holes. We show that pair-plasma fluid around a black hole is thermally not relativistic. In order to make it relativistic, a finite baryon loading is necessary. As a consequence of this, pair-plasma flow do not suffer centrifugal pressure driven shock in accretion. However, fluid with finite baryon content may undergo shock transition.

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Indranil Chattopadhyay. 2013-09-30. Effect of plasma composition on accretion on to black holes. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3009507

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